Maurice Carter v. Mike Parris

THAPAR, Circuit Judge.

Maurice Carter pled guilty to a variety of sex crimes and received a twenty-year prison sentence. He now petitions for habeas relief. Carter alleges his attorneys were constitutionally ineffective for failing to make the best arguments for suppression of key evidence. Yet even if Carter's counsel had made different arguments, the end result in his case would have remained the same-the evidence against Carter would have come in. Therefore, we affirm the district court and deny Carter's habeas petition.

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Near midnight on June 2, 2007, some residents of Smith County,…